[Puppet Users] r10k and dynamic environments

2014-03-25 Thread Steven James
Hi all. I'm trying to get r10k to pull down a hieradata repo, and deploy it to the appropriate I've added the following section to /etc/r10k.yaml hda-hieradata: remote: 'ssh://g...@stash.blah.com.au/puppet/blah-hieradata.git' basedir: "/etc/puppet/environments/${::environment}/hierada

Re: [Puppet Users] Re: Does r10k play nicely with Puppet Enterprise gems?

2014-02-26 Thread Steven James
feedback appreciated! Thanks Steven On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Steven James < pullingthestrings...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Adrien! > > On Wednesday, February 26, 2014 10:41:28 AM UTC+11, Adrien Thebo wrote: >> >> Hi Steven, >> >> I'm g

[Puppet Users] Re: Does r10k play nicely with Puppet Enterprise gems?

2014-02-25 Thread Steven James
it into the PE stack. > > On Tuesday, February 25, 2014 2:06:42 AM UTC-8, Steven James wrote: >> >> As r10k is a gem install, and has quite a few gem dependenciesdoes >> anybody know if it plays nicely with Puppet Enterprise? >> >> As long as I use PE's

[Puppet Users] Does r10k play nicely with Puppet Enterprise gems?

2014-02-25 Thread Steven James
As r10k is a gem install, and has quite a few gem dependenciesdoes anybody know if it plays nicely with Puppet Enterprise? As long as I use PE's /opt/puppet/bin/{bundle,rake} when doing the builds, should all be fine? Anybody have any stories or woe and dispair, or just lots of associated hap

[Puppet Users] Re: Puppet vs "typical" release management / change management

2014-02-05 Thread Steven James
Thanks for your input chapsappreciated! Steve On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 9:05:37 PM UTC+11, Steven James wrote: > > Hi there. > > I'm look to see if anybody has any advice to share around how the > implementation of Puppet affects the "typical" ITIL based re

[Puppet Users] Puppet vs "typical" release management / change management

2014-02-04 Thread Steven James
Hi there. I'm look to see if anybody has any advice to share around how the implementation of Puppet affects the "typical" ITIL based release management and change management processes. >From a change perspective, I'm thinking that the whole risk thing associate with the CAB for example, should

[Puppet Users] Puppet 3 class autoloading not working?

2013-09-25 Thread Steven James
Hi, I've just updated some modules that worked fine in Puppet 2.8, to v3.0.1. I'm struggling to get class autoloading working for some reason, and I wonder if someone can help? My main class is as follows; cat /etc/puppetlabs/puppet/environments/production/blah_soe/manifests/init.pp class blah_

[Puppet Users] Setting up an HA Puppet console using HAProxy

2013-09-11 Thread Steven James
Hi all, I'm trying to set up an HA Puppet 3 (PE3) console. My goal is to use HAProxy to present the puppet VIP, and have two load balance Puppet Masters in behind. My plan goes along the following lines. The first PM would be the active CA *and* console. Port 443 and 8140 will need to be handl

[Puppet Users] An assortment of 2.x agents out there...a Puppet 3 PM, and Satellite to lend a hand? Agent update / migration approach?

2013-09-11 Thread Steven James
Hi, We have a fairly large number of 2.x FOS puppet agents out there in RH5, 6 and Solaris 10 server land. We've just installed PE3 on RH6.4, and trying to work out how to migrate all of the agents across. We have a new Satellite in the mix to lend a hand if necessary. I'm curious to see how o

[Puppet Users] Puppet environments versus the PE console?

2013-09-11 Thread Steven James
Hi, I was wondering if it's possible to use (puppet.conf) environments within the classes in the PE console? I saw this link, but wondered if there had been any updates or other experiences from anybody? http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/6608 Thanks, Steven -- You received this message

[Puppet Users] hiera.yaml syntax required, for Puppet 3 lookup of files within a sudirectory

2013-09-11 Thread Steven James
Hi all, I'm having some issues getting hiera to check out a subdirectory in it's hierarchy, I've set a custom fact to reveal what my working environment is. Puppet 3 / PE3.0.1 i.e. facter -p my_env shows "test" My hiera.yaml has an extract like the following; :hierarchy: - defaults - "%{

[Puppet Users] Setting up PE from scratch with PuppetDB/Postgres on separate box

2013-09-10 Thread Steven James
Hi All, I'm trying to setup a new Pupp Ent instance from scratch with PuppetDB/Postgres on a sep box. I think I have it working, but it took a bit of doing. I just wanted to check that there's not a more straight forward way. I'm aiming for an HA proxy load balanced pair of PuppetMasters, CA a

[Puppet Users] Puppet and RHN Satellite - Queensberry rules required?

2013-09-05 Thread Steven James
Hi, A little off topic perhaps, but thought somebody may have some insights with the following. I'm trying to anticipate and plan for any contests between Puppet and RHN Satellite. The thought to try and get them to play together may be as follows; Satellite will 1) Provision a base RH ser